7 I -L HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



St. Stephen's church, North Castle, is situated midway between the 

 ettlements, Kensico village and North Castle post-office, in the vil- 

 lage of Armonk. Sometime prior to 1753 a site was selected for a 

 church edifice, on the undivided land of the Middle patent, not half a 

 mile from the spot now occupied for this purpose, and was designated 

 by the letter C inscribed on a rock. The letter is still legible, and the 

 ancient deed is still in existence. "On the 10th of October, 1755, John 

 Hallock, of North Castle, for the sum of ,£10, conveyed to Joseph Fow- 

 ter and Caleb Fowler, of the same place, a certain piece of land, lying 



St. Stephen's Church, North Castle. 



in North Castle, bounded as follows : Beginning on the east side of the 



highway, that leads from the said John Hallock's house to Aaron For- 



mans, Sen., at a certain neck which lyes at the northwest coiner of the said 



Aaron Foreman's home lot, with the letter C cut thereon ; and from 



thence extending south 65 degrees, easterly, or thereabouts, along by 



the land of the said Aaron Forman's, as the fence now stands, three 



chains and fifty links (of Mr. Gunter's chain) to a stake stuck in the ground 



with stones about it ; from thence, running southeasterly 47 degrees, 2 



chains, to a marked chestnut tree, standing on the edge of the brook, a 



little to the north end of the said John Hallock's new grist mill ; from 



thence, running west two chains and eighty links to the aforesaid road; 



and from thence, running something to the east of the north three chains 



and ten links to the first bound, containing three-quarters of an acre, " 



&c. a 



For some reasons, now unknown, it was determined to erect the 



church five miles further north, in the town of New Castle. 



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a From the original deed in the possession of Job Sands, of North Casttte. 



